This article addresses the interplay between motherhood and working as a professional educator. It focuses on female educators' relationships in the public sphere and private sphere, and how these two spheres inform and impact one another. The research aims to establish the degree and extent to which societal dictates affect women's identities in…

Using records from the National Insurance Institute of Israel, we recognized all children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD, N = 8072) or hearing loss (HL, N = 2231) born in Israel between 2005 and 2010. Typical developed children were taken from a random 20% sample of children born during the same years (N = 227,492). Analyses were adjusted for…

While the benefits of early childhood education and care (ECEC) services to better learning are now widely acknowledged, a widespread and accessible provision for these services also helps support gender equality in the workforce. In particular, the availability, intensity, reliability and affordability of ECEC play an important role in engaging…

This study used drawing and semi-structured interviews to access the visions of self-actualisation of a group of at-risk young women in an employment support group in Israel. The findings point to the synergetic relationship between the self-defined goals of the young women such as inner peace, self-regulation, assertiveness, good relationships…

We explored the relationships between the experience of work-family conflict and levels of distress in the family and at work among a sample of 227 Israeli working mothers. We also examined how role set density (RSD, the number of roles they perform) and personal and environmental resources are related to the women's experience of distress.…

The article focuses on findings that were replicated across several countries and considers their relevance for future older adults. Key findings are that (a) childlessness makes more of a difference in men's than in women's lives, (b) never-married women are a childless category with particularly favorable characteristics, and (c) childless…

Jewish Israeli women (n=6,018) were more likely to leave reduced-hour or part-time jobs than full-time jobs. New mothers were more likely to move to reduced-hour or part-time work. Women in female-dominated or peripheral occupations were more likely to reduce hours or quit. In the long term, part-time work was disadvantageous to women. (SK)

Examines the work roles of Israeli village women at home and in the fields, the effects of technological change, and sex stereotypes related to technological aptitude. Suggests that the crucial variable influencing gender differentiation in work roles is technology itself rather that its context of application. (SV)

Investigated life history of American career women (N=24) at midlife. The transitions experienced by these women during their lifetimes were categorized into "masculine" or "feminine" types. It was found that they were distributed about equally between the two types of transitions, thus excluding a simple biological approach.…

A Hebrew interest inventory for females in Israel, based on Holland's vocational classification, was examined on 322 female pupils and 167 working females. Results showed subjects occupied in a field had highest interest scores in that field and the highest interest score was the score of those engaged in that field. (Author)

Discusses social and economic inequality of Israeli women, despite a political ethic which holds that the sexes are equal. Describes the current women's movement. Explores religious and historical phenomena, including the influx of oriental Jews and ongoing warfare, as factors in perpetuating traditional ideologies of masculinity and femininity.…

This report briefly describes child care facilities and policies in Sweden, Israel, and France. The report represents the impressions of 24 labor union women who visited these countries in an attempt to formulate a policy for government supported comprehensive child care in the United States. The labor union representatives were participants in a…

This paper reports on a 1-year cross-cultural project designed to compare alternative modes of child care and child care programs in Sweden, Israel, and China with those in the United States. Based upon data available in documents pertaining to children, interviews with scholars involved in research on child care programs, and on-site observations…

This paper reports on research designed to explore the status of children and the relationship of patterns of child care to social structure and social change. The study is based on interviews with scholars and government officials, an analysis of statistical data and research reports, and visits to day care centers, playgrounds, and other…